Rain Partier

Eli Katz wrote:You're right. Yet, on balance, I think the web format offers more possibilities for creators to explore than the print medium.

Cheap photoshop blurs and the dynamics of a filmstrip?

Why do animation 1/10th of the way? I'd rather read a book or watch a cartoon, not some clunky attempt at amalgamating the two for people with smartphones.

Oooh, the innovation is I have to click a button to see the next part of the panel?

Gimme a break.

The story itself is written exclusively for aging superhero fanboys, and the technological innovation is about what you'd expect some baby boomer yuppie to be dazzled by. This is the future of nothing.

Rain Partier

Eli Katz wrote:You're right. Yet, on balance, I think the web format offers more possibilities for creators to explore than the print medium.

Cheap photoshop blurs and the dynamics of a filmstrip?

Why do animation 1/10th of the way? I'd rather read a book or watch a cartoon, not some clunky attempt at amalgamating the two for people with smartphones.

Oooh, the innovation is I have to click a button to see the next part of the panel?

Gimme a break.

The story itself is written exclusively for aging superhero fanboys, and the technological innovation is about what you'd expect some baby boomer yuppie to be dazzled by. This is the future of nothing.

OMCTO

McDarkseid wrote:Cheap photoshop blurs and the dynamics of a filmstrip?

Why do animation 1/10th of the way? I'd rather read a book or watch a cartoon, not some clunky attempt at amalgamating the two for people with smartphones.Oooh, the innovation is I have to click a button to see the next part of the panel?

Gimme a break.

The story itself is written exclusively for aging superhero fanboys, and the technological innovation is about what you'd expect some baby boomer yuppie to be dazzled by. This is the future of nothing.

Yeah, I think it's a great innovation because it controls what you see and when you see it. It prevents you from letting your eye drift ahead, and so it helps build greater suspense. I think for horror stories, in particular, this technique will be very useful.

OMCTO

McDarkseid wrote:Cheap photoshop blurs and the dynamics of a filmstrip?

Why do animation 1/10th of the way? I'd rather read a book or watch a cartoon, not some clunky attempt at amalgamating the two for people with smartphones.Oooh, the innovation is I have to click a button to see the next part of the panel?

Gimme a break.

The story itself is written exclusively for aging superhero fanboys, and the technological innovation is about what you'd expect some baby boomer yuppie to be dazzled by. This is the future of nothing.

Yeah, I think it's a great innovation because it controls what you see and when you see it. It prevents you from letting your eye drift ahead, and so it helps build greater suspense. I think for horror stories, in particular, this technique will be very useful.

Wrasslin' Fan

Eli Katz wrote:You accuse me of not be able to read? Jesus, you come from a country where everyone's toothless and delirious from hockey injuries. If you can read at all, it's a communist language like French.

Wrasslin' Fan

Eli Katz wrote:You accuse me of not be able to read? Jesus, you come from a country where everyone's toothless and delirious from hockey injuries. If you can read at all, it's a communist language like French.

Rain Partier

Eli Katz wrote:Yeah, I think it's a great innovation because it controls what you see and when you see it. It prevents you from letting your eye drift ahead, and so it helps build greater suspense. I think for horror stories, in particular, this technique will be very useful.

I think, like early video games decades ago that used this exact model with lower-res graphics, it just encourages you to click through to get to the next part, in a way incentivizing inattentive reading.

Although the one story on the site doesn't actually require that much attentiveness anyway. Yet another deconstruction of (yawn) Batman combined with an Eat It Grampa legion Robin.

Rain Partier

Eli Katz wrote:Yeah, I think it's a great innovation because it controls what you see and when you see it. It prevents you from letting your eye drift ahead, and so it helps build greater suspense. I think for horror stories, in particular, this technique will be very useful.

I think, like early video games decades ago that used this exact model with lower-res graphics, it just encourages you to click through to get to the next part, in a way incentivizing inattentive reading.

Although the one story on the site doesn't actually require that much attentiveness anyway. Yet another deconstruction of (yawn) Batman combined with an Eat It Grampa legion Robin.

******

by ****** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 8:52 am

Is anyone else getting the feeling that Squid might not like this week's pick?

Zombie Guard

If Insufferable was a thing it'd be Stephen Day's comic book store because it has nothing to recommend it over paying extra to travel to a decent store but at least you're not fishing your comics out of a creek or pond.

Zombie Guard

If Insufferable was a thing it'd be Stephen Day's comic book store because it has nothing to recommend it over paying extra to travel to a decent store but at least you're not fishing your comics out of a creek or pond.